NURS 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Medicine Wheel
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Tabaco is the most important medicine: from the east where the sun comes up and where life begins. Spirit comes from the eastern doorway take care of our spirit by smudge, meditation, yoga, pray, sing, reflect. Spring/ renewal red: offered first during ceremony, offered to trees or animals before you take from them, creates a direct connection the creator. First plant the creator gave them: activator of all other medicines. Detox: good in tea steep for 3 min. Good for when you have a cold has lots of vitamin c: put around camping areas or home for protection, used in sweat lodges. Water is vital to all forms of life: need it to survive. Nurs 1000: kills germs in the home when cooked. In a persons bundle they should bring with them four stories. Must not drink or use drugs 4-7 days before using medicines.